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Sales of new services at Terminix, the acquisition of Home Security of America Inc. and organic growth at American Home Shield prompted Memphis-based ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc. to post increases in revenues Thursday, Feb. 26, for the year 2014 and the fourth quarter of the year.

TruGreen has announced it has donated more than $125,000 to several local and national charities through the company’s Lawn Stars program.

Each quarter, the TruGreen Lawn Stars program recognizes 21 local sales and service teams that lead their respective regions in customer growth. Each winning branch is awarded a $2,000 donation towards any charity of their choice.

TruGreen has announced it has donated more than $125,000 to several local and national charities through the company’s Lawn Stars program.

Each quarter, the TruGreen Lawn Stars program recognizes 21 local sales and service teams that lead their respective regions in customer growth. Each winning branch is awarded a $2,000 donation towards any charity of their choice.

The parent company of Memphis-based ServiceMaster Co. LLC began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, June 26, in an initial public offering of its common stock.

The move to the market comes a day after ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc. announced it was pricing the offering of 35.9 million shares at $17 per share. The pricing was below analysts’ estimates of $18 to $21 per share.

A lot has changed for Memphis-based TruGreen lawn care in the last six months.

The company behind one of the best known brands in lawn care became its own independent company at the start of 2014, spinning off from The ServiceMaster Co. in a move that meant changes for both companies.

The ServiceMaster Co.’s TruGreen lawn-service division has at least 300,000 fewer customers than it did two years ago, just before the Memphis-based commercial- and residential-services provider began seeing a decline in TruGreen’s numbers.

The ServiceMaster Co. plans to spin off its TruGreen lawn care business at the end of 2013 after several years in which the Memphis-based collection of residential- and commercial-services companies has struggled with the right business model for the TruGreen brand.

Partly in celebration of being named by ESPN The Magazine as the best franchise in professional sports, the Memphis Grizzlies are putting on a civic celebration and court dedication event Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Southside Park, 612 South Parkway.

The ServiceMaster Co. reported a $564 million operating loss Wednesday, Aug. 14, for the second quarter of its fiscal year, in a quarter that CEO Rob Gillette said did not meet expectations.

The Memphis-based residential and commercial services company, which includes the Terminix, TruGreen lawn care and American Home Shield brands, posted $939 million in operating revenue, a 2.4 percent decline in operating revenue from the same time last year.

The pursuit of economic development comes with code names, secrecy and mysterious visitors.

Without a doubt, the last two years have been eventful when it comes to the city’s civic leaders luring companies to town with the promise of jobs for Memphians. In that regard, the local debate about tax incentives and the competition with other cities, some nearby, was vigorous.

Hank Mullany, CEO of the Memphis-based provider of home and commercial services, spotlighted results in the company’s TruGreen lawn care business, which has been a priority of his since he became CEO in April 2011.

Memphis-based The ServiceMaster Co. saw a half a percentage point drop in its operating revenue for the second quarter compared to a year ago – a flattening of its revenue attributed in part to a continuing shift in the strategy of its TruGreen lawn care division.

Memphis-based The ServiceMaster Co. saw a half a percentage point drop in its operating revenue for the second quarter compared to a year ago – a flattening of its revenue attributed in part to a continuing shift in the strategy of its TruGreen lawn care division.

Kenny D. Crenshaw, owner and president of Herbi-Systems Inc., has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce, Northeast Shelby County’s largest business membership organization.

The most recent figures from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development show a falling jobless rate for the Memphis metro area.

New, more current figures will be out later this month that show the area’s latest unemployment picture. But in the meantime, the Memphis area has played host to one job fair after another in recent days, while across the state there have been more than 20 such fairs in the past 15 months.

Hank Mullany has a pretty basic mission statement and set of guiding principles for The ServiceMaster Co., the Memphis-based home- and commercial-services company he took the helm of earlier this year as CEO.

Hank Mullany has a pretty basic mission statement and set of guiding principles for The ServiceMaster Co., the Memphis-based home- and commercial-services company he took the helm of earlier this year as CEO.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis has a busy couple of weeks ahead as it closes its books on the fall building season.

Tuesday, Oct. 25, marked the dedication of The ServiceMaster Co. home at 3477 E. Oak Side Drive in Trinity Park, the first all-green neighborhood being developed by Memphis Habitat. The will be the Memphis-based home and commercial services company’s fifth sponsorship home with the nonprofit.

Memphis-based TruGreen lawn care is changing its neighborhood sales strategy as the CEO of parent company, The ServiceMaster Co., continues to talk about the need for the company to improve its performance.

Months after Memphis-based The ServiceMaster Co. sold off its TruGreen LandCare subsidiary, the new ServiceMaster CEO said TruGreen lawn services has to improve its performance for investors and for clients of the lawn maintenance service.

Hank Mullany’s tenure as CEO of The ServiceMaster Co. begins Friday at the Memphis headquarters of the company that includes Terminix, TruGreen, Merry Maids and other residential and commercial services.

The familiar hum of the fertilizer tank and sprayer on TruGreen service trucks is about to fade out.

Associates with the lawn care company that is part of Memphis-based The ServiceMaster Co. have already heard from customers who missed the hum and thought the new hybrid trucks being tested by TruGreen had missed their homes.

The CEO of ServiceMaster, who led the company during the relocation of its corporate headquarters from Illinois to Memphis, is stepping down.

J. Patrick Spainhour, who has served as chief executive officer of The ServiceMaster Co. since 2006, is retiring from the company at the end of the year. A search for his successor will start immediately.

Running Pony won for a short documentary produced for Homewood Suites and the Nature Conservancy, a series of 30-minute child nutrition programs for the National Food Service Management Institute, commercials for Scan Interiors and Ashley Furniture HomeStore, a public service campaign for Shelby County government, a safety video and branding video for TruGreen and the “I Am a Man” documentary on the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike.

As soon as he heard the Memphis Redbirds were coming to town in 1998, Buddy Young bought season tickets and has renewed them every year since.

From the first two seasons at the old Tim McCarver Stadium to the debut of AutoZone Park in 2000, from Albert Pujols’ walkoff home run that won the Pacific Coast League title the first season at AutoZone to last year’s championship run, Young has been a die-hard Redbirds supporter.

TruGreen lawn care is being fined $500,000 by New York environmental officials for the misapplication of pesticides and filing inaccurate records.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation filed the agreement this week with the Memphis-based company over what the agency said were more than 100 violations in New York dating back to 2007, mostly in the Albany area.

Tom Courtney is vice president and associate general counsel for TruGreen, TruGreen LandCare and TruGreen LawnCare, all of which are business units of Memphis-based The ServiceMaster Co. Courtney has been at ServiceMaster since January 2007. He leads a team of two lawyers and three paralegals dedicated to providing direct business unit legal advice to the TruGreen companies.

Jeshahnton “Shaun” Essex has been named assistant administrator at Methodist University Hospital.

Essex will be responsible for environmental services, mail services, food and nutrition services, laboratory, radiology and facility and engineering services. Essex has served as assistant administrator at Methodist North Hospital the past four years.

The ServiceMaster Co. shareholders late last week approved a merger agreement allowing the acquisition of ServiceMaster by a corporation called ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc., formerly CDRSVM Topco Inc.

Three separate class action complaints were filed against The ServiceMaster Co. in Shelby County courts this week, alleging inadequate and unfair pricing of publicly owned shares of ServiceMaster stock related to the company's acquisition by New York-based Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc. (CD&R).

Martha Boyd was named director of development for the Trezevant Manor Foundation.

The New York Times Co. Broadcast Media Group announced that Bruce Moore was named news director of WREG-TV in Memphis, effective Jan. 30. Moore is a 15-year veteran of WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Va. He served as assistant director of WVEC-TV for seven years. He graduated from the University of Georgia.

Keith Morris of 4M Land Co. in Somerville was honored with the 2005 Land Realtor of America award by the Realtors Land Institute. Morris, current president of the Tennesseen RLI chapter, is the first Tennessean to receive the award. He graduated from the University of Memphis.

74. ServiceMaster SeesRevenue Increase - Friday, August 05, 2005The ServiceMaster Co. has reported second quarter revenues of $1.2 billion, an 8 percent increase from second quarter 2004. The company attributed the rise to profit growth in several business units, including Terminix, TruGreen ChemLawn and American

Whitaker Bank Corp. of Kentucky has signed a letter of intent to buy banking offices in Corbin and Williamsburg, Ky., from Union Planters Bank. Pending due diligence review, negotiation of a definitive ag...

89. Archived Article: Gov't (idb) - Wednesday, January 20, 1999 A tax freeze application for a project that would add 600 jobs in the next three years will be considered by the Industrial Development Board ServiceMaster project would create 600 jobs By KATHLEEN BURT The Daily News A tax freeze application for a ...

91. Archived Article: Servicem Chg - Friday, December 05, 1997 By CAMILLE H ServiceMaster to add 10,000 feet to new office By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News Memphis-based ServiceMaster Consumer Services, a division of ServiceMaster LP, has started construction on a 10,000-square-foot addition to its office at...

92. Archived Article: Terminix - Tuesday, September 23, 1997 By SUZANNE THOMPSON Japanese franchise owners to celebrate Terminix tie By SUZANNE THOMPSON The Daily News A group of about 250 Japanese business owners and their spouses will be in Memphis this weekend, and they might be found doing anything from p...

94. Archived Article: Real Fcs (lawns) Lj - Tuesday, April 08, 1997 lj 10/5 cates Love that lawn A healthy lawn can do more than just enhance a homes appearance By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News For the past six months, the Mid-South has been inundated with near-record rainfall levels. Many homeowners are now used to...

95. Archived Article: Amerispec Chg - Monday, February 17, 1997 By CAMILLE H American Home Shield moves AmeriSpec to Memphis ServiceMaster to acquire Ohio lawn care company By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News AmeriSpec, a division of Memphis-based American Home Shield, has moved its corporate offices to Memphis....

96. Archived Article: Amerispec Chg - Monday, February 17, 1997 By CAMILLE H American Home Shield moves AmeriSpec to Memphis ServiceMaster to acquire Ohio lawn care company Feb. 17, 1997 -- AmeriSpec, a division of Memphis-based American Home Shield, has moved its corporate offices to Memphis. AmeriSpec, a home ...